Stakeholders' Confidence in the Impartiality of the ZEC
70
60
Yes - a lot
of
confidence
50
40
Some
confidence
30
20
10
0
May 13 - May 27 - June 10 June 24 July 8 - July 22- Aug 5 - 12 Aug May 26 June 9 - June - July 7 July 21 Aug 4 Aug 11 19 Aug
23
No- very
little
confidence
generally
Figure 1: Confidence in ZEC impartiality
As shown in figure 1, closer to the election, there was an overall decline in confidence in the
impartiality of ZEC. After the election, stakeholder confidence significantly declined, this can
partly be attributed to perceptions fuelled by allegations by the leaders of the main
opposition, the MDC Alliance, that the Commission manipulated poll results in favour of
ZANU-PF.
Acceptance of Presidential and Parliamentary Election Results by Political Parties
The official Presidential results and some Parliamentary election results were disputed. The
most prominent was the Presidential Election result where the main opposition political
formation’s Presidential candidate disputed the Presidential election result and lodged a
court application with the Constitutional Court to have the election results overturned. The
election petition was dismissed by the Court with costs.
Further, there are several electoral petitions that are before the electoral court where the
results of the parliamentary elections are being disputed. Some of the cases include: Gift
Machokoto Konjana vs Dexter Nduna in which the petitioner is seeking the nullification of
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POST-ELECTION LONG TERM OBSERVER REPORT © September 2018